[
 {
  "chunk": 31,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "At a shearing shed the soft-hearted shearer called The Oracle, who collects afflicted men, takes an interest in a forlorn swagman found wandering with no memory of who he is.",
  "predicament": "A soft-hearted worker takes up a helpless stranger who claims to remember nothing about who he is or where he came from."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 32,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The Oracle gets the stranger a job and threatens anyone who mocks him; Mitchell jokes about working the case for money; the stranger muses that he might be a lord.",
  "predicament": "A kindly man vouches for a helpless stranger to the boss and threatens anyone in the crew who dares to mock him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 33,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "Mitchell suggests he take a dead man's name, so they call him Smith and come to treat him as a harmless lunatic, while he borrows tobacco and forgets to return it.",
  "predicament": "A crew humours a newcomer with a strange story, lends him a borrowed name, and gradually stops keeping an eye on him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 34,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "Smith fails to turn up to work, claiming he has forgotten again; The Oracle vows to see it through, and the boss goes to confront him.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer someone vouched for stops turning up for work, and the boss comes to find out what is going on."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 35,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The boss sacks Smith; the men nearly revolt on his behalf until Mitchell suggests The Oracle check his bunk, where he finds he has been robbed.",
  "predicament": "The kind man who stood up for a stranger learns, in front of everyone, that the stranger has robbed him blind."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 36,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The Oracle goes silently for his horse, and one by one the others find their own bunks robbed too.",
  "predicament": "Everyone who shared quarters discovers the helpless stranger they sheltered has robbed them all, and the kindest of them is angriest."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 37,
  "story": 5,
  "summary": "The Oracle finds Smith drunk at a shanty, recovers the stolen goods with the shanty-keeper's help, and beats his memory back into him.",
  "predicament": "A man betrayed by someone he protected tracks him down, takes back what was stolen, and settles the matter with his fists."
 }
]